Getting Tough on Iran

Co-Sponsor of the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act

• Congressman Murphy is a co-sponsor of H.R. 2194, the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act, a bill empowering the President to impose new economic sanctions on foreign firms involved in the export of gasoline and other refined petroleum products to Iran.
  
  
• Iran currently lacks the refining capacity to meet domestic consumption and must import as much as 40% of its gasoline from abroad.
  
  
• The bill passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan support on December 15, 2009 by a vote of 412-12.

Co-Sponsor of the Iran Counter-Proliferation Act

• Congressman Murphy co-sponsored the Iran Counter-Proliferation Act, a bill placing stricter limits on U.S. exports to Iran and prohibiting all Iranian imports. It forbids nuclear cooperation between the United States and any nation that provides nuclear assistance to Iran.
  
  
• This bill highlights a pragmatic way forward to slow, and possibly stop, the Iranian weapons programs that could present a grave threat to the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East, Europe, and around the globe.
  
  
• The bill passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan support on September 25, 2007 by a vote of 397-16.

Co-Sponsor of the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act

• Congressman Murphy is a co-sponsor of H.R. 1327, the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act. This tough legislation empowers state and local governments to pressure the Iranian regime by divesting their pension fund assets from companies with investments of $20 million or more in Iran’s energy sector.
  
  
• The legislation also makes it easier for investment firms and pension funds to divest funds from these companies without risking legal action, and would support divestment efforts in states, localities, and at universities.
  
  
• The bill passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan support on September 25, 2007 by a vote of 397-16 and again on October 14, 2009 by a vote of 414-6.

Condemning Calls to “Wipe Israel Off the Map”

• Congressman Murphy is a co-sponsor of and voted for H.Res. 435, a resolution urging that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad be charged with violating the 1948 Genocide Convention and the UN Charter because of his calls for the destruction of Israel.
  
  
• During his most notorious address on this topic at the 2005 World Without Zionism Conference in Tehran, Ahmadinejad urged that Israel be “wiped off of the map.” The 1948 Genocide Convention not only prohibits genocide, but also prohibits “direct and public incitement to commit genocide.” This resolution passed the House on June 20, 2007 by a vote of 411-2.